random bits of stuff var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-280402-6"); pageTracker._initData(); pageTracker._trackPageview(); Tumblr (3.0; @ericthoreson)http://bits.ericthoreson.com/<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dI5xSdhwdjY&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dI5xSdhwdjY&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Wow.  Inspirational.  Go Lance!</p>http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/134219041http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/134219041Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:12:37 -0700<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4238176&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4238176&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4238176&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Awesome!</p>http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/109338256http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/109338256Sun, 17 May 2009 21:37:04 -0700“David’s victory over Goliath, in the Biblical account, is held to be an anomaly. It was not. Davids win all the time.<br/> *****<br/> David can beat Goliath by substituting effort for ability—and substituting effort for ability turns out to be a winning formula for underdogs in all walks of life.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/11/090511fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all">Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath<br/></a></em>http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/103659197http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/103659197Tue, 05 May 2009 00:16:53 -0700“Creating a sustainable startup that can fail indefinitely until it succeeds is the only logical response to the reality of trying to start a successful business.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.jacksonfish.com/blog/2009/04/30/google-style-perks-at-your-scrappy-startup/">Jackson Fish Market » Google style perks at your scrappy startup?</a></em>http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/102349113http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/102349113Fri, 01 May 2009 11:47:26 -0700<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/FfyfoYq74mur2070VRBOpuVqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/004922.html">gapingvoid</a></p>http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/101223882http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/101223882Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:03:59 -0700“I stopped working for other people when I wanted to control my own destiny.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.jacksonfish.com/blog/2009/04/27/majority-ownership-and-control/">Jackson Fish Market » Majority Ownership and Control</a></em>http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/101215064http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/101215064Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:42:39 -0700““Now, I’m really looking for more of a boutique business, one that’s not going to have more than 24 employees and never more than $10 million to $100 million in sales, but is a dependable cash generator. I look for businesses that have a real niche that’s competitively defendable and people want to pay money for it. I’m not very big into the ‘eyeballs’ and page views and that kind of stuff.””<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/startups/entries/2009/04/06/as_angel_investors_pull_back_s.html?cxntfid=blogs_starting_up">Mike Maples<br/></a></em>http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/99849310http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/99849310Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:27:20 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/FfyfoYq74ljyb195gc4IKrgQo1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/3387278843/">Rainier Brewery Letterhead - 1904</a></p>http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/90256489http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/90256489Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:01:48 -0700“Inspiring conduct has so much more of an impact than coercing it.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/opinion/22friedman.html?src=sch">Are We Home Alone? - NYTimes.com</a></em>http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/88791848http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/88791848Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:34:32 -0700<p><b>by <a href="http://www.brepettis.com/blog/2009/3/3/the-cult-of-done-manifesto.html">Bre Pettis and Kio Stark</a><br/></b></p> <ol> <li>There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. </li> <li>Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.</li> <li>There is no editing stage.</li> <li>Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.</li> <li>Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.</li> <li>The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.</li> <li>Once you’re done you can throw it away.</li> <li>Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.</li> <li>People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.</li> <li>Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.</li> <li>Destruction is a variant of done. </li> <li>If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.</li> <li>Done is the engine of more.</li> </ol> <p><b>via <a href="http://smarterware.org/994/the-cult-of-done-manifesto-by-bre-pettis-and-kio-stark">Smarterware</a></b></p>http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/88383915http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/88383915Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:57:06 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/FfyfoYq74lb9k8vxoEHh6k8ro1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/88374057http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/88374057Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:06:58 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/FfyfoYq74lb9jeh1uH6kNSPQo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/88373928http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/88373928Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:06:18 -0700<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/FfyfoYq74l8i71z499oLkLp8o1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbeltjones/3365682994/">Get Excited and Make Things</a></p>http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/87795345http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/87795345Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:45:00 -0700<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/FfyfoYq74l8i53toTNNvZaRRo1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/mar/18/keep-calm-carry-on-poster">Keep Calm and Carry On</a></p>http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/87795067http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/87795067Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:43:49 -0700“stick and stay and make it pay”<br/><br/> - <em><a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sig_Hansen">Sig Hansen</a></em>http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/84003821http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/84003821Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:15:28 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/FfyfoYq74kpxebnhxvYWIlSKo1_400.png"/><br/><br/>http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/83985741http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/83985741Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:43:16 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/FfyfoYq74kpc07svt1NnTRjjo1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a target="_blank" href="http://summitatsnoqualmie.com/info/calendar/calendarevent.bark_ball.item.asp">Alpental Backcountry Ball 2009</a> — A Benefit for the Backcountry Avalanche Rescue Dogs.</p>http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/83845002http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/83845002Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:44:26 -0800“Refer to the Powder Clause in my contract, ” more than six inches of new and I’m gone””<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.blogcrystal.com/2009/02/articles/snows-here/">Snow’s Here! : Blog Crystal</a></em>http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/83678959http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/83678959Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:49:33 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/AQLiOovhNkkn5ghlZvKtCnPMo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://fredwilson.vc/post/82783831/via-16-media-tumblr-com">fred-wilson</a>:</p> <blockquote>via <a href="http://16.media.tumblr.com/b9vfl4b63kjehyfrlgU0BSqAo1_400.jpg">16.media.tumblr.com</a> </blockquote>http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/82855497http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/82855497Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:26:20 -0800“The only way to actually get things done is to mitigate the urgent to work on the important.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs/2009/02/how_to_mitigate_the_urgent_to.html">Gina Trapani - HarvardBusiness.org</a></em>http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/82049461http://bits.ericthoreson.com/post/82049461Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:31:35 -0800